Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

Marina Mogilko

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

Marina Mogilko

The world's top CEOs and AI founders explain what's coming next and how you can get ahead. Silicon Valley Girl is a weekly AI and technology podcast from Silicon Valley hosted by female founder and angel investor Marina Mogilko, covering practical strategies for career growth, mastering AI tools, entrepreneurship and making money with AI. For startup founders, professionals and creators who want to stay ahead in the AI era.

1 DAYS AGO

AI Ready

$2.1B AI CEO: From "The Worst Idea" to a $2.1B Company | Grant Lee, Co-Founder and CEO Gamma

Grant Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Gamma — the $2.1B AI tool that turns one prompt into a finished presentation, now used by 100 million people. We covered: * How Gamma hit $100M in revenue with a team of just 50 — profitably, on only $23M of fun...

3 DAYS AGO

Your Next Cofounder Is an AI | Edward Kim, Co-Founder & CTO of Gusto ($10B)

Eddie Kim is the co-founder and CTO of Gusto — the $10B payroll and HR platform that millions of small businesses run on. Gusto just launched Gusto Cofounder — an AI teammate for small businesses: payroll, compliance, and daily ops handled before they ...

4 DAYS AGO

The 5-Layer System to Make Your Business Run on AI

In 5 years the most valuable companies will run as a closed AI loop — every call, email, and content metric feeding back into one system that acts faster than any human team. In this video I walk through the 5 levels we're building inside my own company, f...

May 29

$1.5B CEO: How to Build in a Crowded AI Market Without Marketing | Christopher Pedregal, Granola

Head to https://granola.ai/marina and enter the code MARINA for 3 months off.Chris Pedregal built a $1.5 billion AI app in 3 years, in a category where Zoom and Google already had similar features before he launched. In this conversation he hands over th...

May 27

Airtable CEO: AI Will Make You Almost Superhuman | Howie Liu

Howie Liu co-founded Airtable in 2012, the no-code app builder used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies. After scaling Airtable into one of the biggest software businesses on the planet, he's now building HyperAgent: a platform where anyone can deploy AI ...

May 25

Head of ChatGPT & Codex: AI Agents for Everyone Are HERE | Thibault Sottiaux OpenAI

Thibault Sottiaux is the head of ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. He told me that in a few months, people who don't use AI at all will get the same benefits as those who've spent two years figuring it out. So what's actually going to be your edge in a market...

May 22

Google I/O 2026: A New Era of Work Just Started | Josh Woodward

Josh Woodward runs Google Labs, AI Studio, and the Gemini app — basically every AI product Google ships. Google just launched Gemini Spark, the AI agent that works for you 24/7 in the background. In this episode, Marina sits down with Josh during Googl...

May 15

$4B Box CEO Aaron Levie: The Next 3 Years Are the Best Time to Build — Here's How to Use This Window

Aaron Levie built Box into a $4 billion company used by 64% of the Fortune 500. Now he says we're at the best moment to build an AI company in 15 years — and the window is 3 years. In this episode, Marina sits down with Aaron to talk about what's actually...

May 10

"In 6 Months, We'll Start Losing Jobs to AI" — Alpha School Founder MacKenzie Price

MacKenzie Price built Alpha — an AI-first school where kids do academics for 2 hours a day, score in the top 1% nationally across every grade, and learn from AI tutors instead of teachers. She also has a prediction. In the next 6 months, our friends, the ...

May 07

6 AI Businesses You Can Start in 2026 — No Code, No Funding, Real Advice from Reid Hoffman, 11Labs CEO & Google's VP of Search

In this episode, Marina breaks down 6 AI business models you can actually start in 2026 — from the easiest (zero tech skills required) to the most scalable (think: automated SaaS with 50% margins). No fluff, no theory. Just specific ideas with action steps...

Apr 30

Mo Gawdat, Allie Miller, Gary Vee: The 6 AI Tools They Use Daily to Earn More | AI Tools 2026

What 6 AI tools are the smartest people in the room actually using every day? I asked the same question to dozens of founders, investors, and AI leaders this year — which AI tool changed your income the most? Six tools kept coming up.In this compilati...

Apr 26

How to Build a $10K AI Business Solo — No Code, No Funding

What would you build today if you had to start from zero? I asked 6 founders the same question: with just a laptop, AI, and no funding — what would get you to $10,000 a month in 90 days? In this podcast they share how they'd build a business today fr...

Apr 23

7 AI Skills That Will Make You Irreplaceable | Advice from Replit, Anthropic, and Microsoft

Job postings with AI skills now pay $18,000 more per year (Lightcast, 2025). By 2030, 39% of today's skills will be outdated. These are the ones that won't. So I asked the people building these AI tools and working inside the biggest AI companies in t...

Apr 21

Google Fired Him. Then He Won a Nobel Prize | John Martinis

John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that made quantum computing possible. At 67, he retired from UC Santa Barbara to build Qolab, his quantum hardware startup. President Trump named him to the PCAST science council with Zuck...

Apr 20

AI Safety Expert: No One Is Ready for What's Coming in 2 Years | Roman Yampolskiy

Roman Yampolskiy has spent 15 years at the University of Louisville studying one question: can we control AI? His answer is no. And in 2026, the early evidence is showing up inside his own department — a 28% drop in co-op placements for CS students. Predic...

Apr 17

How to Build a $1M Business Solo in 2026 — No Team, No Funding, No Code

If you lost everything tomorrow — your money, your network, your reputation — and had to rebuild from zero in 2026, what would you actually do? I asked the founders who've already done it. In this episode, I talk to Samir Vasavada (CEO of Vise), Young Zha...

Apr 15

How AI Is Solving Problems We Thought Were Impossible | Yossi Matias, Google VP of Research

AI is already solving problems scientists said were impossible — and we're just getting started. In this episode, Yossi Matias, VP of Engineering & Research at Google, explains why we're living through the golden age of research and what that means for you...

Apr 13

Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually Shows

Which Jobs Survive AI by 2030? Saadia Zahidi (WEF) Reveals What the Data Actually Shows Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, joins Silicon Valley Girl live from Davos to break down the WEF Future of Jobs Report — and what it actua...

Apr 10

Duolingo CEO: AI Won't Take Your Job — But Someone Using It Will (And Here's What to Do Now) | Luis von Ahn

Try Granola — the AI notepad that turns meetings into action: https://www.granola.ai/marina or use code MARINA at checkout for 3 months free. Luis von Ahn built Duolingo into a company with 100M+ monthly active users and $1B in the bank — and he's nev...

Apr 09

Nobel Prize Winner: What Quantum Computing Does to AI, Bitcoin, and Your Data | John Martinis

What happens after AI? John Martinis — Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the scientist behind Google's quantum computing breakthrough — says most people are focused on the wrong threat. He's the only scientist on Trump's new tech advisory council, alongsi...